Transforming Refinery Operations with Aspen Unified Scheduling
Aspen Unified Scheduling™ offers a cutting-edge solution to revolutionize refinery operations and enhance production performance. By scheduling refinery operations efficiently, this innovative tool enables companies to achieve higher margins, reduce emissions, improve product quality, and ensure operational stability. The seamless integration of scheduling with optimal plans translates into realistic signals for operations with minimal investment, providing a faster and easier way to align schedules with optimal plans.
Maximizing Margins and Saving Time
Aligning schedules with optimal plans is crucial for maximizing margins and saving valuable time. Aspen Unified Scheduling leverages industrial AI to create feasible schedules based on optimal plan results while capturing the valuable knowledge of schedulers. By closing the gap between planning and scheduling, this solution enhances margins, reduces emissions, and automates time-consuming tasks, ultimately leading to increased efficiency and profitability.
Optimizing Blends and Enhancing Efficiency
With Aspen Refinery Multi-Blend Optimizer (MBO) integrated into Aspen Unified Scheduling, refining operations can optimize blends across a longer time horizon. This leading blend optimizer enables higher margins and reduced quality giveaway up to one month in advance, ensuring the most efficient use of blend stocks. By maximizing efficiency in blend optimization, refineries can minimize costs and improve overall product quality.
Streamlining Model Development and Implementation
Aspen Unified Scheduling makes it easy to develop and implement scheduling models by linking data and models between planning and scheduling through model catalogs. This seamless integration streamlines the process of creating effective scheduling models from existing Unified PIMS models. By enhancing model development and implementation, companies can operate more efficiently and effectively.
Improving Operational Stability and Reliability
Predicting and communicating unit rates, yields, stream compositions, and inventory levels is essential for running refineries more stably and reliably. Aspen Unified Scheduling enables operators to predict and communicate crucial operational parameters, ensuring that refineries can operate smoothly and consistently. By improving operational stability and reliability, companies can enhance overall productivity and profitability.